I know it's cliche, but they really do grow up fast. I just can't believe he's three years old already. He had a great birthday and we thank everyone that called and contributed. Everytime the "Happy Birthday" song was sung he'd point to himself and just beam. He got lots of great presents then went to Chuck E Cheese. He was very sad to leave and I had to promise him that we'd go back again next week! Thanks again for everyone who helped make his birthday memorable. We love ya!

Here are a few more swingset pictures we took recently and a great one of Brian playing the piano. On a similar note, Aaron played the first line or 2 of his favorite church hymnn on the piano recently. Totally blew me away! He's such a smart kid.

This afternoon Aaron was supposed to be taking a nap, but from the sounds coming from his room I could tell that he wasn't. Brian was asleep in there so I definitely didn't want him waking Brian up. I put on my "mean Mommy face" and went in there prepared to discipline him. I found him sitting in his bed reading the Book of Mormon. How am I supposed to get mad at him for reading scriptures! He's such an angel. Instead I cuddled with him for a few minutes and took the book with me back to his bookcase in the front room. I guess if he's going to goof off in his room and not nap, I'd rather him reading the Book of Mormon than doing anything else.

I can't believe it's been a month since I updated this, but hopefully everyone will enjoy the following pictures and stories!

First, the update on Brian. He's almost 7 months old now and sits up very well and can roll from his belly to his back. We give him lots of encouragement and he just beams knowing that he did something right. He's eating some solid food now and loves everything we give him...cereal, vegetables or fruits. We think he's totally cool!







Aaron has finally started to pay attention to Brian and will often go sit next to him on the couch or floor and sometimes in a shopping cart, and will just hold his hand. It's absolutely precious! He loves singing songs and Sunday he was singing the "Hello Song" from primary, but every time he would sing “Hello” it would come out "Hell no! Hell no!" We tried not to laugh, but we couldn't help it!






We recently had a visit from Kathe Thomas, the boys paternal grandmother, and she brought some adorable pajamas for the boys and bought them a great outfit which they wore to the park. Again, I have this compulsion to dress the boys identical!









Everyone is happy and healthy and looking forward to Aaron's 3rd birthday the end of this month. I promise we'll post more pictures when those festivities occur.